Welcome To The Hive!

Beverly Bees, a tiny organization with a lofty goal – Saving Honey Bees One Colony At A Time!

Help us save honey bees! Do you have a bee swarm? Call us to remove and relocate them at 978-778-8276 or visit our bee removal page here to learn more. We offer live bee removal services for both wasps and honey bees! We remove bees and wasps without pesticides or chemicals and save and relocate bees. We remove bees and wasps from trees, houses or structures. Call us for all your bee removal needs.

Honey bees around the country are struggling in modern society. Pesticides, diseases, lack of forage and pests are weakening the nations honey bees and putting the country’s food supply at risk.

Our mission at Beverly Bees is to help increase the local honey bee population through our Host A Hive program, promote awareness of the plight of the honey bee through Educational Talks to Schools and Community Groups, and to help foster good stewardship and understanding of honey bees. We share knowledge about sustainable, organic and treatment free beekeeping on our Beekeeping Blog, relocate wayward bee colonies with our Bee Removal Service and sell Raw Local Honey to the community. If you are just starting out your beekeeping hobby be sure to check out our Beginner Beekeepers Guide to learn more about keeping bees.

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Love our blog? Consider a donation. A lot of volunteer work and money goes into writing and maintaining this website – including taking care of bees, buying beekeeping supplies and general beekeeping duties, traveling and attending beekeeping events, plus photographing, writing and sharing valuable beekeeping information with our readers. Your donation will allow us to keep providing our readers with important information in the future that will go toward educating and furthering the understanding of honeybees and beekeeping for backyard beekeepers. We could not do it without you! Thank You!

Interesting Facts About Bees

It takes 12 bees their entire lifetime to make just one teaspoon of honey.

Honey bees visit 2 million flowers to make one pound of honey

Field bees visit 50 to 100 flowers during each trip.

Honey bees fly 12 and 15 miles per hour.

Honey bees flap their wings 12,000 times per minute.

Honey bees are covered in hairs designed to trap pollen. Even their eyes have hair on them! As they collect pollen for their hive the bees bodies transfer it from flower to flower and that's how pollination occurs.

Honey is essentially dehydrated nectar from flowers. Bees eat honey and pollen from flowers. They ferment the pollen first and mix it with honey in order to be able to digest it.

One honey bee hive visits about 225,000 flowers per day.

A strong hive may contain up to 60,000 honey bees.

All the worker bees are female. The drones or male bees have only one job and that is to mate with the queen. The drone mates one time then he dies.

The queen bee can mate with up to 45 drones. But the average number is 13.

The queen goes on a mating flight several days after she emerges. Once a queen bee is mated, she keeps the drone's sperm alive inside her for the rest of her life. She never mates again.

A queen bee lays up to 2000 eggs a day (an average of one every 45 seconds) and may lay a million eggs in her entire lifetime.

The queen bee decides to lay a fertilized egg which will be a worker bee or new queen or an unfertilized egg which will develop into a drone.